Biography

Director, scriptwriter, producer. Born 25
February 1959 in Sverdlovsk. Graduated
from the Translation Department of Gorky
Pedagogical Institute (1981) and from the
Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and
Directors (1990, experimental course of
«director’s cinema»). In 1992 he founded,
together with Sergei Selianov and Vasily
Grigoriev, the film company «СТV», with
whom he subsequently made all his films.